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Sure that wasn't a promo for Open Sky? I'd never heard of it and I'd have thought Etsy would be a more internationally known and accepted example. Maybe it's because I'm not in Canada - that might be a question worth asking. This was a tricky question. If I ask a question about a vendor I can be sure to get responses so would strongly agree. However, from experience, I would strongly disagree about counting on getting any response at all from the vendor and when I do it's often a canned answer to some other question because they haven't read mine properly. Let me know if you want concrete examples.
I just took the survey, but I am not sure that my answers will help. That's because while I use social media like linkedin and DP, I do not use FB or ever heard of Open Sky. You should really call this a Facebook/Open Sky survey as that seems to be your world when it comes to social media.